thanks

I recommend you read the guide Portals 101 which Fzanco mentioned.

It explains a property of portals that has not been mentioned in this discussion. That is that if a portal connected to another is renamed, it will take a couple of seconds to connect to the portal matching the new name. If you step through the renamed portal before the new connection takes effect you will be teleported to the portal bearing the old name. In the time taken to teleport the renamed portal will have connected to the portal matching it's new name. You will be stuck at the old portal with no way to teleport back.

I discovered this by accident. I had to trek and sail back to the renamed portal. I called my portal a name unsuitable for use in mixed company. It was also to long to fit the number of characters Valheim allows for portal names.

Originally posted by Bishop_396:

I didnt see the Raven say anything about fist ole great wise one

Not sure why you would expect to hear about a fist when talking about portals....

When you place your first portal the raven appears to tell you how they connect. Check your compendium - the raven icon when you hit tab

I didnt see the Raven say anything about fist ole great wise one

thank you

I got them to work ...Thank you all so much ..Skol

In future you should pay attention to what the crow is telling you instead of clicking it away.

It will give you important and useful information like this. If you miss one you can go back and read them all by hitting tab and clicking the crow icon for past info.

Walk though one.

The name you assign them must match exactly on both. They are case sensitive.

You type in a name and they must match. Its really neat. For example one of mine is "Altar". Or for when you are getting chased you can use "555" or something short. If you're short on resources you can keep one portal at your base unlabeled, then keep any number elsewhere and rename the one in your base(s). So for example you could have a portal on three seperate islands, and the one in your base you could rename to "island 1". go there do your thing at that outpost then go back to base, rename the one in your base to "island 2" and go elsewhere. Its up to you and how many eyeballs you pulled out of gredwarves.

You need to set a tag for each portal. The two you are connecting must match exactly. I usually name my first A then next set B and so on. That way you can leave a marker on the map as A1 and A2 and keep your map sorta organized. Just my recommendation with naming since both sides must be the same and I find it keeps it easier to navigate once you go over ten portals.

Also if you have three with the same name, the third won't connect, only the first two.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2763738924

A pair of Portals need 2 things:
- A matching name (the default empty "" also works)
- No portal disrupting items in your inventory (metal ore and metal bars)

It's a good idea to use map icons to keep track of portals.

It's a good idea to keep a spare blank portal at home base, and immediately deploy its pair after sailing to shore. It'd be a real shame to die after landing and have no return path.